The Revolution in Rojava

You’d think it would be big news that there’s a liberated area in the Middle East led by socialist-feminists, where people make decisions through local councils and women hold 40% of leadership positions. You’d think it would be even bigger news that their militias are winning territory from ISIS. But many on the U.S. left have yet to hear the story of the Rojava cantons—Afrin, Cizîre, and Kobani—in northern Syria, or western Kurdistan.

Join Dissent, the Center for Secular Space, and the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies for a special discussion with two Kurdish activists Dilar Dirik and Zozan Alush in conversation with Meredith Tax

TCDS and the New School Memory Group are excited to present a talk by Irit Dekel, of Friedrich Schiller University & Humboldt University, on her recent work entitled ‘Philosemitism, Holocaust Memory, and the Accomplishment of Civility in Germany’. Join us at noon on October 31st, 2018, on the 9th floor of 6 E 16th st., in […]